Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Oct 31 00:13:45 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Dave Ihnat wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:28:22AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> However, there are conceptual differences in system administration so
>>> it  is somewhat painful to jump back and forth between ubuntu and an
>>> RPM  based system with redhat-style configuration frequently.
>>
>> True; but if you've lived in Unixland before, this is nothing new.  BSD
>> vs. SVR2 vs. AIX vs. Solaris...  It's just part of the landscape.
> 
> Sure, but there were reasons that SysV, AIX, Solaris, HPUX etc. didn't
> share the best way do everything.  Among opensource builds of
> essentially the same upstream packages there's less excuse to maintain
> intentional differences.

You're right.  We should just pick the best package manager and make
everyone use it.</sarcasm>

Matt Flaschen





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